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Postcard of Sword blades.
000-190-004-115-C
© National Museums Scotland

Sword blades

Samurai, wore two swords, one long and one short. A different pair were worn at court and for ceremonial occasions, tachi, slung from the girdle, edge downwards and a tanto or guardless dirk thrust through the girdle.

a) This blade for a slung sword, tachi, is signed Bishu Inuyama no ju Munefusa, probably a 17th century swordsmith from Owari Province. b) This shortened katana, hasonly Fujishima left, a family name common in Kaga province in the 14th & 15th century.


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Online ID: 000-190-004-115-C
Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
Project: 0098: National Museums Scotland
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Ref: National Museums Scotland  A.1956.634
Date: 15th century
17th century
19th century
a) 17th century b) 15th century
Material:
Dimensions: 30.00" L
33.50" L
39.50" L
What: Scabbard, tachi
Sword
Tachi / sword
Subject: Weapons / swords and daggers
Weapons / swords and daggers
Weapons / swords and daggers
Who:
Where: Japan
Japan
Japan
Event:
Description: Tachi or sword, with curved pointed tempered single-edged steel blade, a ray-skin hilt bound with silk cords, two gilt memuki, and a tsuba of dark alloy: Japan, 17th century
Tachi scabbard of wood, decorated with a dragon on nashi-ji lacquer, dark alloy mounts, and flat silk suspension cords: Japan, 19th century
Sword, with a curved single-edged steel blade, an ornamental guard, and a fish-skin hilt wrapped with black silk cord: Japan, 15th century
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